Less visited than nearby Lofoten but just as preternaturally beautiful, the archipelago of Vesterålen is a balmy natural playground deep in the Arctic Circle.

With a runway of smoking-hot coals laid out before them, residents in San Pedro Manrique, Spain, steel themselves as thousands of onlookers cheer them on. Although the walkers and the crowd perform very different roles during the annual June ritual, they report similar feelings: an ineffable feeling of togetherness, as if the entire group becomes one, said Dimitris Xygalatas, a cognitive anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, who witnessed the Spanish ritual years ago as a researcher.

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Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey created a new app called diVine after shutting down Vine in 2017.

Ella Langley just did what no female country artist has done since 2012.

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company. Bondi was a partner at Ballard Partners before leading the Justice Department’s charge to turn Mangione’s federal prosecution into a capital case, creating a “profound conflict of interest” that violated his due process rights, hi

Israeli media reports said Iran again used cluster munitions in a new missile attack on the Tel Aviv metropolitan area early on Monday. There were around 20 impact sites in the vicinity of Tel Aviv, ynet news site reported.

As December's chill settled over Gaza, the family's nylon tent offered little refuge. Until Wednesday night, when 29-day-old Saeed, his tiny body wracked by the cold, did not respond. The infant, who had been born prematurely and very underweight, became the second baby to die of hypothermia in recent days at Nasser Hospital, doctors said Thursday.